altan, 这是一支被誉为90年代最杰出的一支爱尔兰传统民谣乐团。从1983 年成立以来 ( 当时还未正式以 altan 为团名 ) 至今共出版了8 张专辑，为他们赢得了许多音乐奖项，其中包括了三座 naird award (national assoication of independent record dealers 美国独立音乐品牌协会 ), 英国民谣 音乐杂志 (folk and roots) 及英国流行乐杂志 (q magnize) 的年度最佳民谣专辑等多项大奖。
Daily Growing
The trees they grow high,
the leaves they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I've seen
Many an hour I have watched him all alone
He's young,
but he's daily growing
Father, dear father,
you've done me great wrong
You have married me to a boy who is too young
I'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen
He's young,
but he's daily growing
Daughter, dear daughter,
I've done you no wrong
I have married you to a great lord's son
He'll be a man for you when I am dead and gone
He's young,
but he's daily growing
Father, dear father, if you see fit
We'll send him to college for another year yet
I'll tie blue ribbons all around his head
To let the maidens know that he's married
One day I was looking o'er my father's castle wall
I spied all the boys aplaying at the ball
My own true love was the flower of them all
He's young, but he's daily growing
And so early in the morning
at the dawning of the day
They went out into the hayfield
to have some sport and play;
And what they did there,
she never would declare
But she never more complained of his growing.
At the age of fourteen, he was a married man
At the age of fifteen, the father of a son
At the age of sixteen, his grave it was green
Have gone, to be wasted in battle.
And death had put an end to his growing
I'll buy my love some flannel
and I will make a shroud
With every stitch I put in it,
the tears they will pour down
With every stitch I put in it,
how the tears will flow
Cruel fate has put an end to his growing
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树在长高, 叶在变绿,
许多次, 我看到他我的可爱,
几多时, 我独自对他长久凝视,
他还小, 但他在长大.
爸爸, 亲爱的爸爸, 你对女儿犯下伟大的错
你把我嫁给没有成人的男孩,
我二十四, 他十四,
他还小, 但他在长大.
女儿, 亲爱的女儿, 我给你的安排并没错,
我把你嫁给豪门的儿子,
一旦我老去, 他将是你依靠的男人,
他还小, 但他在长大.
爸爸, 亲爱的爸爸, 如果你认为合适,
来年过后, 送他读大学吧,
我要用蓝绸带缠上他的头,
告诉年轻的女孩, 他已经结婚.
曾经有一天, 越过爸爸的院墙,
我看到一群男孩在玩球,
我的可爱追逐其中,
他还小, 但他在长大.
那是曙光微现的清晨，
他们冲入草场锻炼游戏，
他们的幼稚，她羞于告人，
但她无从抱怨，因为他在成长．
十四岁，他成已婚男人，
十五岁，他已做了父亲，
十六岁，他的墓地绿草如芸，
死亡终止他的成长．
我买来法兰绒，给我的可爱做寿衣，
一针下去，泪如雨，
一针上来，雨是泪，
残酷的命运终结他的成长．
